It is a very easy operation. All what you have to do is to uncover the hard drive cage, unscrew the internal HDD, and pull it out. After removing it, you need to have a new hard drive replacement. Just insert the new HDD and fix it inside the cage with the screws. Eventually, follow the upgrade steps in this guide. Never handled such a problem before, but according to my experience your hard drive is malfunctioning and gives serious errors that force PS4 to do that.
You can do one last step before replacing the internal hard drive of PS4. Now give it a last chance and see if this has fixed the problem or not. I have the same issue. Works fine for a few days-week, then the blue light flashes and instructs me to download the newest software.
Taking it into a local store for their expertise. Might have to purchase a new HD. As for how to go through the replacement process, please visit our PS4 hard drive upgrade guide. Any ideas how to format the seagate firecuda to Fat32 on a windows10 PC? Just insert it inside PS4, and PS4 system will format it automatically with the relevant file system. I really liked this article. Thanks Yes I am in the middle of all the confusion too.
Yes I am also trying to increase the space of my PS4 but I am confused whether I should put internal or external hard drive. I have a PS VR and I really download a lot of digital free games coming up as you can see in you have lot of free games warface etc. If this is your case, I strongly advise you to upgrade your internal hard drive with Western Digital 4tb Performance Black with the help of the so-called Data Bank. But believe me, for your case it is the best option for the price. In many cases that caused serious defects to the external hard drive or to the USB port itself.
If you find it expensive, then go for the internal hard drive upgrade solution. You better opt for desktop external hard drive. It depends on how you identify yourself. Or just a casual or regular user? If you consider yourself in the first class, then you MUST upgrade the internal hard drive.
I told you why. VR poses a heavy burden on the hard drive and keeps it running all the time. If the hard drive is external, this will make it more vulnerable to electrical shorts and might shorten its lifespan. I am confused internal 2tb or external 4 or 5tb. As both prices are same. For the sake of performance you cannot dispense with upgrading the internal hard drive of PS4. I doubt the stock hard drive of PS4 can last for too long under this situation.
Firecuda SSHD is the most relevant for the overwhelming majority of users. Maybe you need to think about an SSD, but that is too expensive and we only recommend it for exceptional uses. Thanks a lot.
Ok I have seen these also. But 1 silly q. If i put databank with 3. I will still check the video on YouTube. Hey, my PS4 is basic one, 2 years old, and out of warranty.
Can you please tell me whether this will work in my PS4? Yes, surely it will work flawlessly. Now, my situation is: I have an original PS4 not exactly from launch but about six months after , and only recently with games like Destiny 2 have I started to notice performance issues. But I think I read here that even with external storage, it is subject to the speed of the internal HDD. And performance has not improved. Thanks for your time and insight!
I noticed a lot of negative reviews Amazon on your acclaimed Seagate Firecuda 2tb SSHD due to a high failure rate after a couple of months. Any experience or issues with this? Say what you will about the stock HDD, but the thing is a tank in reliability…. If reliability is what concerns you the most, I advise you to go for an SSD. But it also has its own bad reviews from customers!
It means those who have got their drive failed, they came back and provided bad reviews. And remember one important thing here. The motivation for writing a good review is weaker than that of writing a bad review. Just imagine it yourself. What impels you to writing a good review if you are happy with your purchase? What I am trying to tell you is that to avoid being driven by the rating thing. Seagate Firecuda is the most suitable drive for the wide variety of users who want a good compromise between capacity, speed and price.
Thank you so much for your quick and detailed response. I am one of those people, haha. In regards to just biting the bullet and going with an expensive SSD: I was originally drawn to your site because I was researching about upgrading my ps4 to an SSD.
Why recommend the Samsung EVO? Hi again Scott. I just thought you were one of these guys. That way if it happens that your drive fails, you are on the safe side with your backup copy. A backup solution is mandatory when dealing with digital data, as failure may happen at any time without any warning. So you must be ready for that always. My ps4 keeps going into a safe mode loop the only option that works is the initialize ps4 and then maybe a day later it will do it again then I have to do it again it sucks so I just wanted to know could this be a hard drive issue??
So PS4 system behaves weird. WD Black 1TB 2. Seagate Firecuda works best when it caches the game inside its SSD memory, which happens after you run that particular game 5 times. But before the game goes to the SSD cache, Firecuda works like any ordinary hard drive. As for Seagate Firecuda Pro, it is for desktop computers and it cannot be used with PS4 unless you do some tweaks to the body of your game console.
If you play online a lot, or play many VR games, WD black is what I advise you to go for, as Firecuda will let you down here. Just a last note. Now the price is quite cheap for 1tb SSD. I have an original ps4. I run r6 mainly and now division 2. Always in party chat and network play. I almost bought the sshd but came back one last time and read your recent posts about ssd is better for online and the sshd is better for offline.
My stuff is original parts so im seeing a lag and im obviously out of storage haha so its time… but if im going to spend the money i would rather get the right equipment. So if i understand you right you think the ssd even though it only runs sata II would be better for online gaming vs sshd for offiline?
Moreover, mechanical hard drives in general can halt occasionally for moments when processing data, according to the nature of mechanicality.
So, for a smoother and seamless overall experience on PS4, you better get an SSD if you can afford the price. Looking to buy the seagate firecuda drive but after reading this comment im not sure, is the difference between SSD and SSHD that noticeable for online gaming?
Im not looking to spend lots on a SSD as im just after a bigger more reliable hard drive to replace my stock PS4 drive to store more games to play with friends, standard model PS4, also saw that SSD will be no good in this model, is that right?
PS4 is pretty old now, think i got it within first year of release in UK. Some will still disagree, but this is what I recommend and see right. I would really love that. Id definitely recommend it, still need to use ps4 more and try more games on it like red dead and gta, but it loads up OS much quicker, and after playing a game for a while it loads up loading screens quicker, worthwhile upgrade to last me for a few years then get ps5!!
Thanks again for your nice feedback. My PS4 is original console bought in Would upgrading my old hard drive, which is most likely busted from the fall, fix this issue? If so, which one is reliable enough to work with the first gen ps4? Yes, it will fix this issue if the culprit is the hard drive, which is in most cases. Ok, so you were right changing the HDD was the reason for the boot up error.
I think you have to give it another try and format it again. Try this time with DOS command. To learn how to do that, please visit this page. My PS4 pro is really laggy in main menu and in general or just with freeze and crash. Should I upgrade hdd or do you think there is a different problem. I have also rebuilt database and initialized. Please visit this page that addresses this issue in details.
My PS4 is not good, when i start the ps4 it keep showing checking system storage of the percentage and when the ps4 logo showed after, i got an error of CE I tried to play every game but it kept freezing but not only that, it everything on ps4 like ps4 home screen, the bar on the left screen, notification as i press and highlighted the icons but it froze.
The final thing is when i play all of the sudden, the console is heated up as it turn off automatically also when in rest mode when i tried to download games. Please visit this page to resolve the CE Error issue.
My ps4 pro has been lagging bad lately. Like the login screen there will be 4 of them across my tv. So I just restart and it goes to normal. But the lag is just ridiculous. I can just be sitting at the loading screen of a game doing nothing and the music will go in and out. This is the first PlayStation to ever crap out on me.
Yes, this is mandatory in your case. For more details, please visit this page that addresses the PS4 slowness issue in details. If I full format my hard drive from the internal, does it stop and reduce the heat because my ps4 kept shutting down by itself when I leave it for like almost an hour. My ps4 kept freezing and crash everytime when I start playing and when I turn on the ps4. You have to first clean the PS4 and check its fan.
Please visit this page for more details on this issue. My ps4 fell nothing happened at first but a couple of weeks later it said all data was corrupted then it went into safe mode and asked for a reinstallation file I tried to initialize it and it worked but the PlayStation was super slow and now it keeps saying all the data was corrupted and it cannot open any games and it usually cannot start properly do I need to replace get a different hard drive?
Great guide, thank you for taking the time to put it together. When I open disk management, it is also there but right clicking on it where I would normally assign a drive letter , all the options are greyed out.
Please provide us with your feedback after you try it. Note: After erasing the PS4 hard drive and reformatting it in the Computer Management window, you should perform another full format to overwrite any sectors of data that might remain.
Depending on the size of the drive, the format may take a few minutes or it might take several hours. I followed your excellent instructions that I received via email. I could see the progress of formatting in the Disk Management window as well as in the command prompt. Formatting this way was successful, and I was successful in reinstalling the PS4 operating system.
So, good you went with exFAT. An SSD is much better and will make your gaming experience smoother. Oh, the CE Error is notorious, and in many cases just replacing the PS4 hard drive is the solution. Would you mind to write us about your experience with the new hard drive replacement and whether it resolved the issue or not?
This will enrich the topic and help us write better guides for our readers. Good news. The PS4 lives again! The problems were almost certainly down to faults on the stock HDD. The problem started when playing Fallout 76 upon entering a new environment where the game would need to load.
This would crash the game. Then the operating system became laggy and would crash without any interaction from me after a time. The SSD peforms superbly. Installation was simple, no formatting required, just plug in and go.
Operating system was installed very quickly, games load much more quickly and textures load almost instantly in the games themselves. Thanks a lot Glen for all these details. This helps SSD maintain the peak performance.
Error code SU shows up after the attempt to download occurs and then it says turn off pS4. What should I do to fix this-is it the hard drive? Try first to full format the PS4 hard drive. This will most probably fix that issue. Try to full format the internal hard drive in order to restore the original performance.
This shall work for you. Would it be easier and still work if I just buy another hard drive and install it?
It will surely still work. I have a issue where any game or app I start it says ce I had a problem with PS4 turning off by itself before but it fixed automatically but now I have this problem when I start a game such as Fortnite it shows some weird sparkling lights and then give the error. Kindly check out this article. Would like to reach out to him for some additional info in using this process.
Any way you could connect me with him or if he sees this post, he could contact me?? Just reply to his comment here and he will get notified by email about that. I cannot reveal any personal information of our readers. There was a power outage in my neighborhood and my electric shut off in my house while I was playing a game on my ps4. Ever since then my ps4 crashes, lags, said it is disconnected from servers, etc.
I believe it is my hard drive that is the issue. Will initializing the ps4 to factory settings help with this issue? Power surges cause damage to hard drives. You have to full format the PS4 hard drive on a PC first in order to eliminate any logical bad sectors.
You can download the update file for reinstallation at playstation. I have then tried no. Please infrom me more about fixing and leaving safe mode without losing data. This is usually a result of a failing hard drive. You have to full format the PS4 internal hard drive to get over it. So I tried on multiple laptops both Acer snd tried multiple Hard Drive and usb cables etc but none of the times has the Hard Drive been read. Another thing I would like to ask is that do you lose your VR Games you paid for after you paid for it and you have done safe mode option 7.
Now hear me out before you say anything. So in my previous comment :. Please inform me more about fixing and leaving safe mode without losing data. Please leave your thoughts. Everyone does that nowadays. Thanks for the reply and how do you Format and could you explain it simply and also is it possible to format the ps4 while in safe mode and lastly how to format in simple.
Thanks Really Much! If you face any problem with formatting the PS4 internal HDD, read the comments below that article as there are several solutions. You have to pull it out and connect it to a computer in order to perform that. This is apparently a hard drive issue. My PS4 Pro is having serious technical issues.
The I could not restart the PS4. It says it can not communicate with the hard drive. The PS4 randomly turned off again and would not restart stating the same communication issue. I now just bought a new SSD and tried replacing the old internal with it. Once again I get the same issue. The SATA slot seems to be defective and causing errors. Only a well-versed technician can fix it. You need to FULL format it in order to fix that issue.
If my internal hard drive stopped working can I use an external hard drive as a replacement? Read this post please. What do I do if my ps4 has been in and out of being stuck in safe mode for the last couple of weeks, and when I initialized it, it started working again, but a couple hours later i tried different options of turning to back on, and when i held down the power button for a long time without hearing the safe mode beep, it turned on and brought me to the home screen?
Do i need to replace my hard drive? You need first to try to full format the PS4 internal hard drive. This should resolve this problem temporarly. If it does, it means the problem is with your PS4 hard drive and you have to consider to replace it with a better and newer drive.
For the past days it has been switching off abruptly and I do not know why. IT will play for minutes sometimes even less, then just switch off. What could the problem be? The PS4 fan seems not working properly. I had the same problem, after a few minutes the ps4 would turn off, no power whatsoever, I had to plug it out and back in to get it back on.
This was about a year ago. My hdmi cord got damaged while it was in rest mode plugged in. Its the ps4 pro. The only thing I can get it to do is go in safe mode and start the process for rebuilding, initialization, and update the system software, I can see it starting the process but it never finishes then before going in rest mode again automatically. If you replace the PS4 internal hard drive and the problem still persists, no one can help you but a technician who have to diagnose your PS4 and find out the real source of the problem.
The screen goes multicolour scramble and then shuts off. I have taken apart and cleaned, I have re seated the drive, I have rebuilt database, I have re downloaded the whole game, I have re-applied thermal paste.
It is crashing again. Check the fan whether it works properly or not. Good day, my ps4 says checking storage and then the screen just turns black. Hi, it was hard to find some support to the PS4 besides go and get it to a repair shop. I can see a lot of relevant and helpful information about PS4 problems here, but it took time to find this. Anyhow, thanks for that, keep up the spirit. The data for following application is corrupted.
After I did that, this error happened again fairly quickly in the same game. After that my system froze in some settings menu, while I tried but had no chance to backup anything. I had to unplug the PS4 at the end since it simply did not react to any buttons at all.
Restarting the system it stated, it could not start the PS4 system, so I had to restart it a couple of times after I finally got the chance to initialize with the update file for reinstall, wiping the hdd. Everything worked out for a while again, but then this issue repeated very similarly while playing the same game again.
By now at least I have learned to backup my save games after every game session. So I did the whole process again. I still thought this just might be a bug of the specific game causing a logical issue. Something that could normally be fixed easily by a chckdsk-tool.
Well then it happened again in another game after quite a while though. I even reinstalled most of my games filling the hdd by then without any issues. But again it was just lost effort.
And this time after the reinitialization I could not install anything anymore — besides the system itself. So it would boot up, but anything I tried to download or install from disk has failed. An I did not even get to the safe mode menu anymore. Quite clearly my hdd has died… and I also got familiar with the whole reinstall procedure.
I also started to feel a bit of regret — why did I buy a console? Since I wanted a plug and play experience without having to be an IT expert. Anyhow, luckily I got a secondary 1TB hdd in my laptop.
Before I buy one, I wanted to try to insert that. I did this procedure 4 or 5 times from the same stick I still use. After I get some warnings that I need to reinstall the system with version 8.
And I thought others are bad with those :. Anyhow after I have read your thread here, I think the hdd should be just fine. It also worked and still works just fine in my laptop.
Currently I am formatting the original hdd just to test how it works, but it does behave strangely and emits strange noises sometimes while finally being able to format. My problem is, that I am not sure that if I get a new hdd it will be different. The hdd from my laptop should work just fine. I think it may by somehow cause this problem.
Hi, sorry for the double posting, please delete my second identical post below. My original posting seemed to be lost when I revisited. I then could reinitialize my system without any errors. So the hdd seems to be absolutely unusable. I have reinstalled some games from disk by now and downloading some smaller games also worked like a charm.
It does work fine again in my laptop though. I have to say, I would not have accomplished this without your page, which really gives some great support. As for the first point, the original PS4 Pro hard drive seems very damaged and must be disposed of. The clicking noise is a very clear sign of the end of its life. As for SSDs, they are light on power, so with the power shortage your console undergoes, the SSD can easily accommodates to this situation.
I reckon this is a very logical explanation for your case, and eventually specialized tests can prove it right or wrong. Thanks for your quick and helpful answers. I will try to test a different hdd when I get the chance and hope that it works, to make sure the problem is not caused by a power issue.
I could bring up the reasoning against this theory, that with the original hdd it still went through the reinitialization procedure many times without any errors and still even booted up when I already got the error message with the laptop hdd.
We very much appreciate that. So, thank you! So my data on my ps4 is constantly being corrupted to the point that even my cloud saves seem to be corrupted. If I were to get a new ps4 would my cloud saves be corrupted or would they work again? Because this kept happening I finally caved and deleted and reinstalled. So I finally reinitialised my ps4 in hopes this would help. It did not. Play PS4 games on PS5 with backwards compatibility. Find out more. More PS5 games. More PS4 games.
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Get more help. All vehicle presets will not transfer to new account, you will have to recreate them. Additionally, it can be updated manually by downloading the update file onto a computer and USB drive for those users whose PS4 is not yet on the internet. Select Move and then click OK to start the transmission. I cant think of a single game in all time on any system that let you transfer progress from one account, linked or otherwise, to another.
Third Party Tool. Upload your saves to online storage. Temporary Disable Firewall and Anti-Virus. Download all files that start with "MyCareer…". You have quick saves and regular save states. On the main interface of your playlists, here is Download switch.
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